On Tuesday afternoon, the denunciations of Trump’s executive order, which imposes tariffs on nations that send oil to the island, resonated strongly in that forum.

Legislator Marco Grimaldi, on behalf of the AVS, requested an urgent report from Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, assessing the humanitarian consequences of this new US attack against Cuba, in order to ascertain the Italian government’s position on this serious violation of international law.

She referred to the US objective of “recolonizing” the “small socialist island that bothers them,” which they are trying to achieve by strangling it and its people, and stated that in the face of such actions, “we cannot remain silent.”

For her part, Deputy Laura Boldrini, of the Democratic Party (PD), joined the AVS’s demand for a report from the Foreign Minister regarding the extremely serious situation faced by the Cuban population as a consequence of the tightening of the economic blockade by the current US administration.

Boldrini stated that, as a result of the fuel supply cuts, the island nation “lacks electricity for essential activities, for schools, for food and pharmaceutical companies, and for hospitals.”

Francesco Silvestri, of the Five Star Movement (M5S), described Trump’s brutal attack on Cuba as repugnant, turning fuel “into a weapon of murder and blackmail,” while also deeming it an inhumane act to block all resources and threaten any other state that intends to help the country.

The Italian legislator concluded that the current US measure to try to prevent energy supplies to Cuba is a criminal act, and emphasized that “from this Parliament, we want to tell the Cuban people that we stand with you.”

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